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▪ I. fusillade, n.|fjuːzɪˈleɪd|
Also 9 fusilade.
[a. F. fusillade, f. fusiller to shoot, f. fusil fusil2.]
A simultaneous discharge of fire-arms; a wholesale execution by this means.
1801Times in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1802) V. 53 From hence were shot those diavolinis and cardamoms, which have been so much admired for their happy illustration of the mitraille and fusillades. 1813Wellington in Gurw. Desp. XI. 359 The enemy have a considerable force..and are keeping up a fusillade. 1835Macaulay Ess., Mackintosh's Hist. Rev. (1887) 336 Then came..revolutionary tribunals, noyades, fusillades. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. xiv. 283 This wanton fusilade must have been the result of a panic. 1885Times (weekly ed.) 16 Oct. 6/2 Notwithstanding the fusillade, no one..appears to have been hurt.
transf. and fig.186.B. Harte Sanitary Message i, I heard the welcome rain, A fusillade upon the roof, A tattoo on the pane. 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn, Birds of Killingw. xxiii, O'er woodland crests, The ceaseless fusillade of terror ran. 1881Geikie in Macm. Mag. Oct. 429 The men found relief in fusillades of swearing. 1884Pall Mall G. 7 Nov. 1/1 The din of controversy, the fusillade of personalities.
▪ II. fusillade, v.|fjuːzɪˈleɪd|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To assault (a place), to shoot down (persons) by a simultaneous discharge of fire-arms.
1816Southey in Q. Rev. XV. 56 A whole corps..were marched apart by one of Stofflet's officers and fusilladed. 1851Carlyle Sterling i. xiii. (1872) 77 Give them shriving if they want it; that done, fusillade them all. 1884Century Mag. XXVIII. 560 The Mahdi's adherents fusilladed his palace at Khartoum.
Hence fusiˈllading vbl. n. Also fusiˈllader.
1839Carlyle Chartism v. 141 Lyons fusilladings..these..were but a new irrefragable preaching abroad of that. 1878H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. II. iv. 119 The butcher of women and fusillader of children. |